He had a dream. But years before Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood gazing into the sea of onlookers stretching out from the Lincoln Memorial, he assured a room of organizers in Tennessee that ...

Director Martin Doblmeier’s 2019 documentary, “Backs Against the Wall: The Howard Thurman Story,” highlighted Thurman’s important role in the civil rights struggle as a key mentor to many leaders of ...

As he watched Black citizens declare war on segregation during the bus boycott in Montgomery, Ala., Martin Luther King Jr. realized "there is nothing more majestic than the determined courage of ...

Bethlehem’s new Mayor J. William Reynolds speaks to participants during the Martin Luther King Jr. Civil Rights Movement March on MLK Day, Monday, Jan. 17, 2022, at Martin Luther King Park on ...

MLK was murdered 57 years ago today…and many of us have still not come to grips with the fact that there is no one leader of the Black Freedom Movement (or, for that matter, any movement!). King ...

Martin Luther King Jr. was a rising civil rights figure when he came to Albany, Georgia, in December 1961, keen to provide a shot in the arm to a desegregation movement that was gathering new steam.

How the life and legacy of the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement can be used as a blueprint for change was the topic of discussion at a town hall symposium. Held ...

The United States, although boasting a strong Catholic community, is not generally a Catholic nation. As such, many Americans do not have experience with the sanctified figures of Christendom. It has ...

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the greatest labor leaders in our country’s history. He was not president of any union, but the struggle for economic justice on and off the job was a core, ...

Terms like “environmental racism” or “environmental justice” were not yet part of the national lexicon when the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis on April 4 ...